MySQL

Preparation

To allow Shaped to connect to your MySQL database, you need to create a read-only user and share those credentials through the Create Model endpoint. You can create a read-only user on a MySQL database with the following commands:

# 1. Create a new user. 
CREATE USER '[username]'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '[password]';

# 2. Grant the user read access to all the tables in the schema. Note you can also 
# restrict this to your specific user, item and interaction views.
GRANT SELECT ON [database_name].* TO '[username]'@'%';

# 3. Save.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Connector Definition

Below are the fields required for the MySQL connectors

connectors: 
    type: MySQL
    id: mysql
    user: database_readonly_username
    password: database_readonly_password
    host: your.mysql.db.hostname.com
    port: 3306
    database: database_name

Field	Example	Description
type	MySQL	Specifies the connection type, in this case “MySQL”.
id	mysql	Specifies the connection id, in this case “mysql”.
user	your_user	Access account username.
password	pAssw0rd1!	Access account Password.
host	my-mysql-db.xxxxxxx.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com	Database hostname.
port	3306	Database port (the default for MySQL is 3306).
database	movielens	The name of the database that contains your user, item, and interaction views.
query	select * from table	An optional query to retrieve the data source.